Mystery Web Novels & Mafia Second Chance Stories

Rose Keller Niel watched her family get murdered and burned alive as a child. The only clue left was an eagle symbol. Years later, she signs a contract with the Demon’s Mafia Clan to deliver Vincenzo Lombardi in exchange for revenge. She first meets him during a killing, then again when he saves her from an attack. Attraction turns into dangerous obsession. He claims her body, and she becomes pregnant with his child. Forced by the clan, she betrays him and shoots him, leaving him for dead. Five years later, he returns more powerful and ruthless. He takes their son and claims her completely. Their relationship becomes a mix of hatred, possession, and rough obsessive desire while old enemies return and blood debts demand to be paid.

Tavian Veyr owns a shipping empire, commands Bellacosta’s most feared crime family, and can buy almost anything except the feeling that he deserves to exist. Since witnessing his mother’s murder as a boy, he has lived by one conviction: everyone he loves becomes someone he fails. Then Ilyra Vale walks into his abandoned conservatory and tells him his roof is falling apart. A gifted art conservator with little patience for powerful men, Ilyra is hired to restore the last place Tavian remembers his mother alive. Their uneasy partnership becomes a refuge neither expected. Through arguments, quiet meals, and memories uncovered beneath damaged paint, Tavian begins imagining a life beyond the empire that raised him. But Ilyra carries a truth that could destroy that future. Her father killed his mother. She has known for years. What began as fear becomes something uglier when she falls in love: a desperate willingness to postpone the confession that might cost her the only man who has ever truly seen her. As an anonymous woman calling herself Moth sends fragments of the past, a stranger known as Peregrine begins dismantling the family’s protected history. Both have reasons to want the truth exposed. Neither intends to leave Tavian’s world intact. When the secret finally breaks, love cannot erase complicity, and revenge cannot restore the dead. With his empire turning against him and Ilyra forced to choose whom she will betray, Tavian must decide whether loving his enemy’s daughter is his greatest weakness or his first freedom.

She was supposed to be dead. Emily has spent years living a life that was never truly hers, unaware that somewhere beneath the lies is a past powerful enough to destroy everything she knows. Then Dante De Luca enters her life. Their relationship begins with a contract. Nothing more. No feelings. No promises. But Dante is hiding something, So is Emily. As their arrangement slowly turns into something neither of them can control, Emily begins to notice that danger follows her wherever she goes. People she trusts begin disappearing, secrets from her past start resurfacing, and the man she's falling for seems to know far more about her than he should. Then Emily discovers the truth. She is the daughter of the Moretti family—the girl everyone believed died years ago. Her return threatens to awaken a war that was never truly over. And somewhere in the shadows, someone has been waiting for her to come back. Someone who knows exactly who Emily is. Someone who has been quietly pulling the strings. And someone who will do anything to make sure she never discovers the truth. Because Emily didn't survive her past by accident. Someone wanted her alive. And now someone wants her dead.